I am the man sick with a slang, sick and I'm destined for fame. Dude for the fan, not for the grand, stunting you're destined for pain. I do not frown. I do not scam. Put some respect on my name. Sick like a rain, click and I bang. Y'all going to remember the name. Y'all going to remember the name. What's up, ladies and gentlemen, and boys and girls around the world, I'd like to welcome you back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast. On today's episode, we have got on the founder and CEO of expat money. And this is Mikhail Thorpe. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Excited to be here. I've been following you on Twitter for a very long time. So it's really cool to meet you in almost person. And

I'm very excited about this and hopefully be able to share a little bit of knowledge and answer

some good questions and inspire your audience. Should be awesome. Awesome. Mikkel, I know from your

story that we have a lot of stuff in common. And you are someone who has traveled even more than I have. Not a lot of

people can say that, but you are truly the international man of mystery. So first things first,

where are you from? And how did you get into your current work? Okay. So I'm born in southwestern

Ontario, Canada. I mean, I got into this at a very young age. I mean, to explain my backstory, you kind of have to understand all the way back from when I was a child. But I've talked about it on many programs. So I'll do a really, really abbreviated version. Basically, when I was in grade three, I got pulled out of my

neighborhood, I got pulled out of my class at my neighborhood school. And the teacher and the

principal and the vice principal were there. And they sat me down and they said,

McKell, something doesn't work quite right in your brain. What we want to do is send you to special

school, special school for special boys. And that's what they did. It would be for three years. I went to a quote unquote special school

and took a little white bus across town. And overall, it was a pretty horrendous experience. It was

actually not a special school. It was a special class in a regular school. So I got in tons of fights and I got picked on. And this is no, woe is me, what was me type of story. I mean, I got hit. I hit back twice as hard if I could. I mean, I absolutely gave it everything I got. But eventually after three years, I got to go back to my neighborhood school.

And I thought, this is going to be amazing. And everyone's going to be so excited to see me.

And I'm going to have all my friends and everything. And everybody instead started kind of

gossiping and whispering. And, oh, I remember, Mikkel, he went to some retard school. Thanks,

guys. Very, you know, sensitive. You know how children are. But overall, public education left a very bad taste in my mouth. And at 12 years old, I stopped going to school. And at 15, I officially dropped out. And when I dropped out, I started traveling internationally. And I got to go to all these interesting places and meet all

these amazing people. And I started to understand that there's actually more than one way to learn or more

than one way to do things. And this normal life that I grew up with in Canada is actually not that

normal. It's not the standard anywhere in the world. And I met all these people who really

inspired me. And I figured out as a teenager that this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to travel

and explore and do all these things. And I think that was kind of my way through public education

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